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"My soul stays close to You." Psalm 63:8

Whence comes this spiritual desire? It arises from the quickening work of the Spirit in the soul. Until we are divinely enlightened to see—and spiritually quickened to feel our lost, ruined state—we are satisfied with the things of time and sense—our hearts are in the world—our affections are fixed on the poor perishing vanities that must quickly pass away—and there is not one spiritual longing or heavenly craving in the soul.

But when the Lord sends light and life into the conscience—to show us to ourselves in our true colours—then spiritual desires immediately commence.

The eyes of the understanding are spiritually enlightened to see God, and the heart is divinely quickened to feel that He alone can relieve the desires that the soul labours under—and thus there is set before the eyes of the mind, the Person who alone can give us that which the soul craves to enjoy!